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👉 Issue #47 of QX Snapshots is out!






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Highlights:


⛓ [𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧] ECB Seeks Digital Euro Partners; Visa Launches New Web3 Service; OECD Explores Blockchain in Italian SMEs; India's Digital Currency Hits 1M Daily Transactions. The European Central Bank issued calls for applications to establish framework agreements with potential providers of key components for a potential future digital euro. Visa launched a Web3 loyalty service enabling brands to provide digital wallets for customers to store rewards and experiences.


▶ [𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧] How Tokenization Can Fuel a $400 Billion Opportunity in Distributing Alternative Investments to Individuals - Bain & Company


🤖 [𝐀𝐈] OpenAI Upcoming GPT Store Launch; Google Readies Bard Advanced; Perplexity's $73M Funding; Midjourney's Copyright Controversy; Apple and Disney Face AI Ethics Shareholder Votes. After delays, OpenAI's GPT store for sharing and selling customized AI agents will launch next week. Meanwhile, Google Bard's website indicates an upcoming "Bard Advanced". The SEC denied requests by Apple and Disney to omit shareholder votes on their use of AI technology. The proposals were filed by a labor union raising concerns about AI replacing workers and unfairly utilizing their creative output. 


▶ [𝐀𝐈] Principled Instructions Are All You Need for Questioning LLaMA-1/2, GPT-3.5/4 .


🎆 [𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐦 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲]   Rigetti and Moody's Push Quantum Finance; Baidu Exits Quantum Race; DARPA's Logical Qubit Breakthrough Reshapes Quantum Computing. 


💻 [𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞] Walmart Partnership with Unity; Gangwon's Olympic Metaverse Debut; and 'Ready Player One' Author Brings OASIS to Life in Readyverse. Walmart is partnering with gaming engine Unity to deliver its immersive commerce vision. It will integrate Walmart's commerce APIs for developers to enable direct in-game sales of physical products across 20+ platforms. British police launch first investigation into virtual rape in metaverse.


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